A little while ago I was thinking I really wanted to start reading more thrillers again. And like fate wanted to help me out, I saw a Tweet by Bookouture and took the opportunity to request ‘One Child Alive’ on Netgalley. Luckily, I got approved to read this book. Although this is book three in ...KEEP READING »
When I read the book description of ‘Girl Long Gone’ on Netgalley a little while ago, I found myself intrigued by this read. So I requested a review copy, and was super excited to start reading as soon as possible.
In ‘Girl Long Gone’ we meet Connor, a NYPD detective who is desperately searching for his missing sister. In his search he meets Evelyn. There is an instant chemistry between these too and soon they decide to work together on the search of Connor sister Monica.
This review is a little hard to write because I’m not really sure what I think. There were several things I didn’t really like. Firstly, I found time going by way to fast. One moment Connor and Evelyn meet, the next they are together. Which I didn’t get at all. Evelyn was supposedly comprehensive of all guys, but she meets a big NYPD guy and bam she wants him. I just didn’t get that part at all. We are supposed to believe she is someone who doesn’t trust easy, but she trusts him right away?
The suspense part also wasn’t really for me. It just seemed like we missed little bits and pieces of the story. One thing would happen, and the next we were following another kidnapping. It felt just really rushed to me. It left me reading several parts multiple times. And in the end I still had a lot of questions left.
But I did want to finish reading this book, because I was curious how things would end up. And we read this book through the ‘bad guys’ eyes too. And that was definitely interesting.
Overall I just didn’t really connect with this story to much. There was definitely potential, but I think some parts should have been more developed.
After reading a lot of romance novels lately, I was looking forward to reading something different. So ‘We Begin At The End’ came exactly at the right time. I read ‘Tall Oaks’ by Chris Whitaker in 2016, and enjoyed it, so I was excited to read this new book.
‘We Begin At The End’ is a thriller, mystery and you’ll get that right from the start. We read about Vincent King, a guy who became a murderer thirty years ago, and is now released back to society. To the little town he lived in, the town where he became a killer. We also meet Duchess Radley, the thirteen year old kid of Vincent’s high school girlfriend Star. Duchess does whatever it takes to take care of her mother Star and her little brother.
This book was definitely very different than the other books I read lately. And it took me a while to really get into this story. This book starts right in the middle of it. At least that was how it felt like. Vincent King is being released from jail, and right from the start there is something mysterious about him and the thing that made him a murderer all those years ago. Right from the start I found myself wondering and thinking what was really going on. We go from different point of views pretty quickly, and this definitely made this a book interesting but also a bit hard at times. ‘We Begin At The End’ really isn’t a book you can read while tired, because you’ll have to concentrate. I sure had to.
What I loved about this book was the fact that it kept you guessing and thinking right to the end. I kept wondering about what happened all those years ago and what would happen now. The way Chris Whitaker writes is definitely impressive. There is something raw and intense about his writing that makes his characters very real. The characters are flawed, like we all are, and nothing is perfect, the way life rarely is.
I can definitely see that ‘We Begin At The End’ is a thrilling and good written story. But it wasn’t my kind of story. I had trouble concentrating on it at times, and I found the girl Duchess very disturbing and hard to read about.
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